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From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Battery Sizes
Keywords: Battery, history
Message-ID: <4515@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 89 22:23:53 GMT
References: <7288@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1405@arctic.nprdc.arpa>
Reply-To: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain)
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In article <1405@arctic.nprdc.arpa> serafine@nprdc.arpa (Ron Serafine) writes:
|	If I remember correctly, back in the `50's, I had a "portable", tube-
|type Silvertone (Sears) brown-plastic AM radio which used two types of batter-
|ies, one of which was an "A". There were two used in each radio, along with a-
|another, which was large & flat-oval shaped.

Since it appears the 'net folks are reminiscing about their old radios and
the batteries they used:

I have (yes it still works!) a RCA Victor Model 9-BX-5 five-tube "portable"
AM Broadcast receiver. It says it uses a "RCA Type VS 050 or equivalent".
The battery holder looks like the battery was about the size of a quart
carton of milk. The antenna is an air core loop wound around the inside of
the case.

The radio is complete with a sticker that reads: "This is to Certify that
this instrument includes the matched elements required in the production
of (italics with gold lettering follows) "Golden Throat" tone."
with the signature: "D. D. Cole, Chief Engineer, Home Instrument Department,
RCA Victor"

(yes it sounds very nice) Anyone a radiophile out there who might now about
what year this product was manufactured?

Can anyone share some information on what a RCA Type VS 050 battery was?
????
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